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The Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, France’s leading summer music festival, has announced its schedule for summer 2024. The festival, which just celebrated its 75th anniversary last year, will run from July 3-23, 2024.

There will be five stage productions, including operatic performances, and two operas will be presented in concert format. In addition, two music plays will be presented. The season will open with a series of performances of Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Aulide” and “Iphigénie en Tauride,” directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Emmanuelle Haim will conduct.

Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” and Verdi’s “I Vespri Siciliani” will be performed in concert format. The former will be performed by Pene Patti, Marianne Crebassa, Karine Deshayes, and Léa Desandre, and the orchestra will be Pygmalion conducted by Raphaël Pichon. The latter features Marina Rebeka, John Osborne, Igor Golovatenko, and Roberto Tagliavini. This is the Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Lyon, conducted by Daniele Rustioni.

For the music theater, Barry Kosky will direct a play called “Songs and Fragments”. It consists of music from Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Eight Songs for a Mad King” and Kurtag Gyorgy’ “Kafka-Fragments,” performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Pierre Bleuse. They will be joined by baritone Johannes Martin Krenzle, soprano Anna Prohaska, and violinist Patrizia Kopatchinskaja.

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